When I'm actively listening, I play from my library. But when I'm doing something else, there are *thousands* of radio stations streaming on the internet - in all genres. Many of them are advertising-free; lots have live DJs at some hours.
The problem Chile's facing is a problem with their infrastructure, not a problem with solar. If they've over-invested and overdeveloped in solar, that's also not a problem with solar. The article repeatedly points this out.
Yes, the old distribution model that began 120 years ago is simply not suited to renewables. The answer is to reform the antique distribution system. The transition from the old model will not be without problems, but clearly investment in wiser, smarter distribution trumps investment in too much production. The power produced where storage has not yet been created needs to be shipped to where it IS needed. And that would be: anywhere where fossil fuels are being used.
I actually read many (not all) of the comments on this topic, and - unusual even for Slashdot - there was NOTHING of value. This topic will appear at Hacker News, and it will contain at least 50% intelligent and thoughtful remarks.
Dropping in on a technical Slashdot thread these days is like visiting a religious convention of snot-throwers being hosted by Youtube. As a result, I (and I'm sure many others) read very little of what all of you zealots have to say. If that's your desire, congratulations. Enjoy your porn pit.
A minah bird or a parrot may learn to repeat hundreds of human speech patterns which it has learned by listening.
Does the bird understand any of the individual words? Does it understand the meaning of the words as group? Can it rearrange the words into new coherent speech? Is the bird intelligent?
Once researchers decide to agree on a definition of what AI is, only then can we decide if that goal is reached by a particular project. Until then its just turtles all the way down.
>>The mass of the universe universe is 70% dark energy, 25% dark matter, 5% familiar matter. >Correct.
Once again I get nostalgic for the good old days, when a hypothesis dressed up as a theory wasn't taken for gospel. So, how many heretics will be burned this week?
As an experienced user of Mac and Linux, I have to say that, unless you are more interested in technical aspects of music, rather than smooth and accomplished production - actually getting stuff out the door - Garageband is a FAR FAR better choice.
Linux audio is fraught with peril and surprises. The available software is adequate, but not very polished, and usually lacking in endless features you'd find invaluable in production. Nothing ruins the flow of creativity and artistry more than endless limitations and technical problems. The big companies have invested heavily in software for the major platforms, and you'll never get close to the endless options they offer, whether its MIDI or audio or mixing or effects, or sample libraries.
I like the idea of open source a lot, but its 'products' lack focus and versatility in many areas. Music is the best example I know of.
It's possible that, as a side effect, memories may be removed that are valuable. Suppose you've 'forgotten' many things... exactly how can you verify that without trying to access all of them? How would you go about systematically checking them?
I've never heard of any test or method that can detect lost information... let alone the quantity, clarity, intensity involved. Clearly some parts of our educations fade naturally, possibly due to limited or no accesses. But we have experience and specific details that are very valuable. There is no quantitive measure of loss.
Sad but not unexpected to see posters slathering on ad hominem attacks rather than addressing the issues. The subtext of most of the messages here today is unmistakable: the nerve of these savages.
I majored in science at university. I read most of the technical books I was supposed to read. I quit religion as soon as I could get away from it. I can clearly see the progress for humanity fostered by reason, empiricism, and applied technology. But.
When I look at what has been done to this world in the previous century-and-a-half, I accept my share of responsibility for what we've done to this incredible, and only, spaceship we have. Here in the US, from the genocides to the atom-bomb to the water in Flint, it's a cornucopia of disasters. We all know the list. And yet, when someone suggests that we step away from the course we've taken, and seriously consider engaging with some traditional notions of sane, caring, thoughtful stewardship, some of us choose to stomp our feet and demand that the Luddites be pushed aside, that their ideas are laughable, that their "feelings" are just manipulation.
Gentlemen (I assert that most of you are), your exhibition of foot-stomping here today reminds me of Sagan attacking Velikovsky. Not of his apology for attempting to crush another POV without regard for its merits.
In the past it was said "History is written by the victors." When Reagan characterized the anti-Sandanistas as 'freedom fighters', that was the same process at work.
Until recently, state violence was usually characterized as 'war'. You have two aggressors killing each other for some period of time. There may or may not be a winner.
However politicized the language, however 'tres moderne' that language becomes, it's the same tactic in use for thousands of years. The hundreds of ancient dead countries in the middle east are proof are still Truth speaking. Rallying around the flag may discredit the truth-tellers, but not the Truth. The outcome has been the same for lo, these many thousands of years.
Awfully light on the kinds of fuel that might be made. Pipe dream, but where's the pipe? The moon may or may not have much water ice. Apart making H and O (requiring large storage tanks... that have to come from Earth)... what else is there? Where are the BIG CARBON deposits on the moon? No C, no hydrocarbates. Going to bring the carbon from Earth?
This idea might have come from a 12-year-old, so far as the article is concerned. Except that a 12-year-old would probably be more practical.
Cheapskate much?? Back in the days of the 8008 and Z80, I paid $200 each for two 12KB ram boards (had to stuff 96 1-k RAM chips into sockets on each). A couple years later, I got two 16KB factory-soldered 'used' boards for $25 each(snort, what a sucker!). 56K bytes total !! NOONE will ever need more than 56KB.
He probably wouldn't post something about a 'renewable' going offline
I guess since that's been the tactic of the Nuclear Industry since inception (no lead-lined coffins to be found anywhere), perhaps he's just learned from the pros.
And hey, at least when renewables go offline, they don't throw temper tantrums.
Launching everything we need from Earth is too expensive.
True! And yet for 50 years, I could never help noticing, we have de-orbited everything we've sent up! It seems as though noone has given any thought to making things we spend $$$$$ billions and billions $$$$ putting up there so that it will be useful in the future.
It wasn't that long ago that they were talking about de-orbiting the ISS in 2016 !! Gosh, I wonder if there's anything long-lasting enough in the ISS that might be useful later. Gosh, maybe Henry Ford was ONTO something when he discovered standardization of parts. LEGO seems to have figured out how to make a whole lot of stuff work together. Maybe they could hire LEGO.
Huh. I wonder if a plan would be possible. If there were only a bunch of smart guys sitting around in fancy government buildings looking for something challenging to do something that lasts longer than the next election. Instead of looking for more ways to throw more money into the Right pockets.
Documentation could improve a lot faster and better if some company took the time to setup a Wikipedia-type "Linux Encyclopedia". Everyone could get at it and improve it in waves in the very same way, and it would unite stuff that's scattered hither and thither.
The first Earth Day took place on April 22, 1970, to " to create awareness for the Earth's environment and to encourage conservation efforts."
The phrase "Damn tree huggers" has been heard ever since. Yeah, even in Iowa. So, 40 years of deliberate ignorance and acrimony is coming home to roost? Tough grid.
No way I'm going to believe any of this. There's no equations on that page, no PhD's are named, and no mention of any government grants. If it were so easy, it'd have been done already long ago.
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When I'm actively listening, I play from my library. But when I'm doing something else, there are *thousands* of radio stations streaming on the internet - in all genres. Many of them are advertising-free; lots have live DJs at some hours.
Hell, Commodore 1541 floppy drives contained their own 6502 for an on-board DOS. Programming the drive was a hot topic for years.
"I've been listening, but I can't hear anyone talking on the other side of the mountain."
"I know ... that's because there's nobody over there."
The problem Chile's facing is a problem with their infrastructure, not a problem with solar. If they've over-invested and overdeveloped in solar, that's also not a problem with solar. The article repeatedly points this out.
Yes, the old distribution model that began 120 years ago is simply not suited to renewables. The answer is to reform the antique distribution system. The transition from the old model will not be without problems, but clearly investment in wiser, smarter distribution trumps investment in too much production. The power produced where storage has not yet been created needs to be shipped to where it IS needed. And that would be: anywhere where fossil fuels are being used.
I actually read many (not all) of the comments on this topic, and - unusual even for Slashdot - there was NOTHING of value. This topic will appear at Hacker News, and it will contain at least 50% intelligent and thoughtful remarks.
Dropping in on a technical Slashdot thread these days is like visiting a religious convention of snot-throwers being hosted by Youtube. As a result, I (and I'm sure many others) read very little of what all of you zealots have to say. If that's your desire, congratulations. Enjoy your porn pit.
Extend, Embrace, Extinguish... Chapter 66: There Can Be Only One
A minah bird or a parrot may learn to repeat hundreds of human speech patterns which it has learned by listening.
Does the bird understand any of the individual words? Does it understand the meaning of the words as group? Can it rearrange the words into new coherent speech? Is the bird intelligent?
Once researchers decide to agree on a definition of what AI is, only then can we decide if that goal is reached by a particular project. Until then its just turtles all the way down.
>>The mass of the universe universe is 70% dark energy, 25% dark matter, 5% familiar matter.
>Correct.
Once again I get nostalgic for the good old days, when a hypothesis dressed up as a theory wasn't taken for gospel. So, how many heretics will be burned this week?
As an experienced user of Mac and Linux, I have to say that, unless you are more interested in technical aspects of music, rather than smooth and accomplished production - actually getting stuff out the door - Garageband is a FAR FAR better choice.
Linux audio is fraught with peril and surprises. The available software is adequate, but not very polished, and usually lacking in endless features you'd find invaluable in production. Nothing ruins the flow of creativity and artistry more than endless limitations and technical problems. The big companies have invested heavily in software for the major platforms, and you'll never get close to the endless options they offer, whether its MIDI or audio or mixing or effects, or sample libraries.
I like the idea of open source a lot, but its 'products' lack focus and versatility in many areas. Music is the best example I know of.
It's possible that, as a side effect, memories may be removed that are valuable. Suppose you've 'forgotten' many things ... exactly how can you verify that without trying to access all of them? How would you go about systematically checking them?
I've never heard of any test or method that can detect lost information ... let alone the quantity, clarity, intensity involved. Clearly some parts of our educations fade naturally, possibly due to limited or no accesses. But we have experience and specific details that are very valuable. There is no quantitive measure of loss.
Sad but not unexpected to see posters slathering on ad hominem attacks rather than addressing the issues. The subtext of most of the messages here today is unmistakable: the nerve of these savages.
I majored in science at university. I read most of the technical books I was supposed to read. I quit religion as soon as I could get away from it. I can clearly see the progress for humanity fostered by reason, empiricism, and applied technology. But.
When I look at what has been done to this world in the previous century-and-a-half, I accept my share of responsibility for what we've done to this incredible, and only, spaceship we have. Here in the US, from the genocides to the atom-bomb to the water in Flint, it's a cornucopia of disasters. We all know the list. And yet, when someone suggests that we step away from the course we've taken, and seriously consider engaging with some traditional notions of sane, caring, thoughtful stewardship, some of us choose to stomp our feet and demand that the Luddites be pushed aside, that their ideas are laughable, that their "feelings" are just manipulation.
Gentlemen (I assert that most of you are), your exhibition of foot-stomping here today reminds me of Sagan attacking Velikovsky. Not of his apology for attempting to crush another POV without regard for its merits.
In the past it was said "History is written by the victors." When Reagan characterized the anti-Sandanistas as 'freedom fighters', that was the same process at work.
Until recently, state violence was usually characterized as 'war'. You have two aggressors killing each other for some period of time. There may or may not be a winner.
However politicized the language, however 'tres moderne' that language becomes, it's the same tactic in use for thousands of years. The hundreds of ancient dead countries in the middle east are proof are still Truth speaking. Rallying around the flag may discredit the truth-tellers, but not the Truth. The outcome has been the same for lo, these many thousands of years.
Awfully light on the kinds of fuel that might be made. Pipe dream, but where's the pipe? The moon may or may not have much water ice. Apart making H and O (requiring large storage tanks ... that have to come from Earth) ... what else is there? Where are the BIG CARBON deposits on the moon? No C, no hydrocarbates. Going to bring the carbon from Earth?
This idea might have come from a 12-year-old, so far as the article is concerned. Except that a 12-year-old would probably be more practical.
Cheapskate much?? Back in the days of the 8008 and Z80, I paid $200 each for two 12KB ram boards (had to stuff 96 1-k RAM chips into sockets on each). A couple years later, I got two 16KB factory-soldered 'used' boards for $25 each(snort, what a sucker!). 56K bytes total !! NOONE will ever need more than 56KB.
If such a thing happened in Canada
Don't worry, we can still send Jimmy Carter up there again to help you guys out with ur nukes, eh.
he has a history of posting "facts" with no further comment or context.
Much as the Industry has a long history of posting "Myths" without further comment or context. Once again, sauce for the goose ...
He probably wouldn't post something about a 'renewable' going offline
I guess since that's been the tactic of the Nuclear Industry since inception (no lead-lined coffins to be found anywhere), perhaps he's just learned from the pros.
And hey, at least when renewables go offline, they don't throw temper tantrums.
Badges? We don't need no steenking badges.
Launching everything we need from Earth is too expensive.
True! And yet for 50 years, I could never help noticing, we have de-orbited everything we've sent up! It seems as though noone has given any thought to making things we spend $$$$$ billions and billions $$$$ putting up there so that it will be useful in the future.
It wasn't that long ago that they were talking about de-orbiting the ISS in 2016 !! Gosh, I wonder if there's anything long-lasting enough in the ISS that might be useful later. Gosh, maybe Henry Ford was ONTO something when he discovered standardization of parts. LEGO seems to have figured out how to make a whole lot of stuff work together. Maybe they could hire LEGO.
Huh. I wonder if a plan would be possible. If there were only a bunch of smart guys sitting around in fancy government buildings looking for something challenging to do something that lasts longer than the next election. Instead of looking for more ways to throw more money into the Right pockets.
Documentation could improve a lot faster and better if some company took the time to setup a Wikipedia-type "Linux Encyclopedia". Everyone could get at it and improve it in waves in the very same way, and it would unite stuff that's scattered hither and thither.
Actually it appeared in the Ubuntu 14.10 Alpha 2 releases a few days ago.
Hah! After a year of reading the Reddit Linux everyday? Made my day!!
Yeah I'll quit doing that.
We should all go re-read Kuhn anyways. Because (thinking of the current state of cosmology for one) clearly we didn't get it yet.
The first Earth Day took place on April 22, 1970, to " to create awareness for the Earth's environment and to encourage conservation efforts."
The phrase "Damn tree huggers" has been heard ever since. Yeah, even in Iowa. So, 40 years of deliberate ignorance and acrimony is coming home to roost? Tough grid.
No way I'm going to believe any of this. There's no equations on that page, no PhD's are named, and no mention of any government grants. If it were so easy, it'd have been done already long ago.
TOK-a-MAK!! TOK-a-MAK!! TOK-a-MAK!!